Karan Johar: 'I'm really competitive with other directors'

Karan Johar has said that he felt competitive when he started making his first joint directorial effort.

The filmmaker shot his first short film as part of the portmanteau feature Bombay Talkies.

He told The Times of India: "During the making of this film, I was obsessed by what the others were doing. I wanted to know how many days they shot, what their films were about. I'm very competitive by nature and we all want to be better than the other.

"But when four of us got together at Zoya's place and we saw the films, there was nothing but love at the end of it - eventually that emotion of cinema and passion overrides that sense of ambition and competition and that's what happened to me. I'm sure the same happened to the other three too.

"Having said that, I always wanted to know if Anurag [Kashyap] had shot his films in five days because my production was giving me a tough time. Zoya [Akhtar] took nine days and I could find out nothing about Dibakar Banerjee. He was the most secretive and the sneakiest of the lot."